Authentic Indian Designs

• ISBN 0-486-23170-4
• Condition : Very good
• Info : 8" x 11"; Soft Cover; 219 pages

This vast Pictorial Archive collection offers you the beauty of 2500 authentic Indian designs that come from all over the United States, including Alaska, and the Canadian Pacific Coast. Dating from prehistoric times (c. 1000 B.C.) to the end of the nineteenth century. These designs have been selected from illustrations in the first 44 Annual Reports of the prestigious Bureau of American Ethnology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, by American and Indian art expert Maria Naylor.

$10.95

{Sold} Beads to Buckskins Vol. 7

• ISBN 1-881646-068
• Condition : Very good
• Info : 8" x 11"; Soft Cover; 96 pages

Beadwork patterns and techniques for the nineties through the twenty-first century. Illustrated techniques for cutting your beading time. Introducing new earring techniques and patterns. Advice on marketing your crafts. Patterns for loom and applique never before exposed. Illustrated instructions for difficult techniques.

$00

{Sold} Beads to Buckskins Vol. 9

• ISBN 1-881646-08-4
• Condition : Very good
• Info : 8" x 11"; Soft Cover; 96 pages

Beading with stone cabochons and beads is extensively covered in this volume. We show time saving techniques, eight pages full color photographs, plus eight pages of all new color patterns. From cowboy hat earrings to exquisitely styled jewelry; illustrated with written instructions.

$00

Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians

• ISBN 0-8061-2137-8
• Condition : Very good.
• Info : 9" x 6"; Soft Cover; 219 pages

This book discusses subjects such as feathers, color and painted designs, native ornaments, beads, cloth, hair and headgear, and dance costumes. Although there were some similarities of dress among the Indians of the North American Plains Indian dress. This book is well written, carefully researched, and profusely illustrated.

$14.95

{Sold} Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles

• ISBN 0-486-21889-9
• Condition : Very good
• Info : 8.5" x 5"; Soft Cover; 206 pages

Drums to have fun with, drums with magical powers, dance drums, tomtoms, water drums-just about any type of drum you could wish to know about or make is described in this book. You may be surprised to note that many can be constructed from such simple, everyday materials as wooden kegs, flower pots, coffee cans, buckets, old inner tubes and airplane cloth. Also drum related articles as drumsticks and many different kinds of rattles are described with additional instructions on how to make them.

$00

Traditional Dress

• ISBN 0-913990-72-8
• Condition : Excellent.
• nfo : 8.5" x 5.5"; Soft Cover; 80 Pages

This black and white book has a lot of photographs of Native American Indians and has chapters on the following instructions, moccasins, fur robes and wool blankets, mittens and socks, beading, belts, womens and men's clothing, shoulder coverings, breechcloths, necklaces and earrings, hair care, painting and tattooing.

$10

Pueblo Designs

• ISBN 0-486-22073-7
• Condition : Very good.
• Info : 7" x 10"; Soft Cover; 113 pages

In an introductory essay, touching on such areas as the phases of Pueblo culture and Pueblo ceremonial symbolism, the author shows how the characteristics of each of the different Pueblo cultures are represented in the various adaptions of the "Rain Bird" motiff which first appeared on Zuni pottery about 1700 and has been one of the distinctive figures of Pueblo design ever since.

$7.95

The American Indian Craft Book

• ISBN 0-8032-5891-7
• Condition : Very good.
• Info : 8" x 5"; Soft Cover; 416 pages

Designed for creative individuals, group leaders, and teachers, this informative and unusual book is a guideto the crafts of the main North American Indian tribes of the seven basic cultural areas. Interwoven with the history and customs of the different tribes are ninety-five pages of pattern illustrations giving instructions that even the novice can follow in making moccasins, dresses, shirts, hats, headbands, hoods, fish nets, bowls, baskets, dolls, masks, games, drums, shields, looms fot weaving, and jewelry. One of the best books on crafts.

$8.95

{Sold} Quill and Beadwork of the Western Sioux

• ISBN 0-933472-00-5
• Condition : Excellent.
• Info : 6" x 9"; Soft Cover; 115 Pages

The Sioux believed that the art of quilling was bought to a woman in a dream. She in turn taught others how to work with the quills. Each woman used personal and original designs which she received through her own dreams. When European beads became available the traditional designs were carried over into beadwork.

This book is the classic work on these important Plains Indian arts, applying to the Cheyennes and Arapahoes as well as to the Sioux. There are 20 pages in the back of the book of patterns. In the book there are a lot of photographs describing what they mean.

$00

Wild Brothers of the Indians

• ISBN 0-918080-21-5
• Condition : Excellent
• Info : 8.5" x 11"; Soft Cover; 56 pages

The early Indians expressed their kinship with their Wild Brothers by picturing them in many ways. They used whatever materials Nature provided and only such simple tools as they could make for themselves. In this book you will see how, using the tools of today, you can draw many of these creatures to look like those of today, you can draw many of these animals to look like those drawn by one small tribe of Indians 1000 years ago.

$7.95